The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story first published in 1839. A narrator visits his ailing childhood friend Roderick Usher at his decaying family mansion. There he encounters Roderick's mysterious twin sister Madeline, who suffers from a strange illness. As the atmosphere grows increasingly oppressive, the house itself seems alive with malevolent energy. When Madeline is entombed within the estate, terrifying sounds begin echoing through the halls, building toward a shocking climax that binds the fate of the twins to their ancestral home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Title The Fall of the House of Usher
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher
Credits Produced by Levent Kurnaz and Jose Menendez
Reading Level Reading ease score: 49.7 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Short stories
Subject Horror tales
Subject Gothic fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 932
Release Date
Last Update Jan 1, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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